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Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.

The Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat final release is very close (23 days) yet so many repositories are not ready for it: GetDeb, Medibuntu and many others. So we must find alternatives to install some applications.

TOR was available in a PPA for Ubuntu (sevenmachines) which has been deleted. There is also an official TOR Ubuntu repository which unfortunately has also not been updated for Maverick, just like the repositories I mentioned above. But the Lucid packages work just fine - I'm running it on Maverick for a month now and everything works. So here is how to add this repository in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and install TOR:

1. Add the Lucid repository in Maverick and install TOR, Privoxy and Vidalia: